Academic Articles & Research Papers

The use of computer vision technologies in aquaculture – A review

A Comparative Study of Physically Accurate Synthetic Shadow Datasets in Agricultural Settings with Human Activity

Shadow, a natural phenomenon resulting from the absence of light, plays a pivotal role in agriculture, particularly in processes such as photosynthesis in plants. Despite the availability of generic shadow datasets, many suffer from annotat...

Automated harvesting by a dual-arm fruit harvesting robot

Abstract In this study, we propose a method to automate fruit harvesting with a fruit harvesting robot equipped with robotic arms. Given the future growth of the world population, food shortages are expected to accelerate. Since much of Jap...

Edge-intelligent lightweight vision system for perspective-corrected egg-cage matching in cage-reared ducks

In the stereoscopic cage-rearing system, monitoring the individual egg production of laying ducks is essential for identifying low-yield individuals and optimizing breeding management. To overcome the high deployment cost of multi-sensor mo...

AriAplBud: An Aerial Multi-Growth Stage Apple Flower Bud Dataset for Agricultural Object Detection Benchmarking

As one of the most important topics in contemporary computer vision research, object detection has received wide attention from the precision agriculture community for diverse applications. While state-of-the-art object detection frameworks...

Computer vision technology in agricultural automation —A review

Computer vision is a field that involves making a machine “see”. This technology uses a camera and computer instead of the human eye to identify, track and measure targets for further image processing. With the development of computer visio...

Assimilation of ASCAT Radar Backscatter Coefficients over Southwestern France

In this work, Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) backscatter data are directly assimilated into the interactions between soil, biosphere, and atmosphere (ISBA) land surface model using Meteo-France’s global Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS-M...

Incorporating structural plasticity into self-organization recurrent networks for sequence learning

IntroductionSpiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by biological neural networks, have received a surge of interest due to its temporal encoding. Biological neural networks are driven by multiple plasticities, including spike timing-depen...

A review on deep learning in UAV remote sensing

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) learn representation from data with an impressive capability, and brought important breakthroughs for processing images, time-series, natural language, audio, video, and many others. In the remote sensing field, ...

Plant Disease Detection and Classification by Deep Learning—A Review

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence. In recent years, with the advantages of automatic learning and feature extraction, it has been widely concerned by academic and industrial circles. It has been widely used in image and v...

A novel agricultural commodity price prediction model integrating deep learning and enhanced swarm intelligence algorithm.

The volatility of agricultural commodity prices significantly affects market stability and financial market dynamics, especially during periods of economic uncertainty and global shocks. Accurate price prediction, however, remains challengi...

IoT-RiceMobileNet: An improved lightweight MobileNetV2 Model for real-time multi-class rice disease detection using IoT.

Early and real-time detection of rice leaf diseases (RLD) poses a significant challenge for farmers, especially in rural regions with limited access to advanced technology. Conventional deep learning models often require substantial computa...

Machine learning technology in biodiesel research: A review

Using Network-Based Machine Learning to Predict Transcription Factors Involved in Drought Resistance

Gene regulatory networks underpin stress response pathways in plants. However, parsing these networks to prioritize key genes underlying a particular trait is challenging. Here, we have built the Gene Regulation and Association Network (GRA...

Hybrid feature optimized CNN for rice crop disease prediction

Abstract The agricultural industry significantly relies on autonomous systems for detecting and analyzing rice diseases to minimize financial and resource losses, reduce yield reductions, improve processing efficiency, and ensure healthy cr...

WEKA: a machine learning workbench

WEKA is a workbench for machine learning that is intended to aid in the application of machine learning techniques to a variety of real-world problems, in particular, those arising from agricultural and horticultural domains. Unlike other m...

Source apportionment and stochastic evaluation of soil contamination and human health risks of potentially toxic elements in Nangodi, northern Ghana

Abstract Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) is a critical driver of soil contamination in West Africa, yet quantifying the relative contributions of natural and anthropogenic sources remains a major challenge. This study presents an int...

Perceptual-Preference-Based Touring Routes in Xishu Gardens Using Panoramic Digital-Twin Modeling

Xishu Gardens, an exemplary narrative of classical Chinese gardens, faces challenges in preserving its commemorative spatial structures while accommodating modern visitors’ needs. While trajectory analysis is critical, existing studies stru...

Machine Learning in Agriculture: A Review

Machine learning has emerged with big data technologies and high-performance computing to create new opportunities for data intensive science in the multi-disciplinary agri-technologies domain. In this paper, we present a comprehensive revi...

Portable NIR Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning for Kiwi Ripeness Classification: An Approach to Precision Farming

This study aims to evaluate and classify the ripening stages of yellow-fleshed kiwifruit by integrating spectral and physicochemical data collected from the pre-harvest phase through 60 days of storage. A portable near-infrared (NIR) spectr...